Fresno judges sparred with county officals over the legal definition of the word "capacity" to ensure they're in compliance wi...

In the first test of California's attorney admissions standards in years, the state Supreme Court will have to weigh whether f...

Federal approval of California's cuts to health care spending on the poor should not kill the U.S. Supreme Court case dealing ...

Illinois plaintiffs' firm Simmons Browder Gianaris Angelides & Barnerd LLC has opened an office in San Francisco, their fi...

With mandatory furloughs, layoffs and other austerity measures already dampening the spirits in some of California's federal c...

In lawsuits related to the Heller Ehrman LLP bankruptcy, a San Francisco federal judge must decide where the limits to a bankr...

Judge David V. Herriford, who conducts and archives interviews with senior citizens, prizes personal growth.

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Greenberg Traurig, LLP added Dana S. Treister as shareholder in Los Angeles. She focuses on transactional real estate matters,...

Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary Ross Stores Inc. ...

Judge Yvette M. Palazuelos is a trial court workhorse and leads her court on lunch jogs.

Law firms, which redeployed their CMBS dealmaking teams earlier this year when it looked like the market was heating back up, ...

James C. Emerson, who retired from the Santa Clara County Superior Court bench early last year, likes settling cases - and att...

A trial attorney crosses paths with some notable San Francisco characters from the 60s and 70s. By Michael Berger of Resolutio...

Expert witnesses on opposite sides, who were also friends, compete for the jury's attention. By Lee Ross of Fox News ...

Macedonia wrestles with whether or not to adopt compulsory mediation. By Michael R. Diliberto of ADR Services Inc. ...

Going by way of the French - should we impose a Good Samaritan law that criminalizes a person's failure to come to the rescue?...

The U.S. Supreme Court built in some loopholes for President George W. Bush in 2004 even as it limited his wartime powers , As...

A longtime attorney for Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP recently became the first general counsel of Burbank-based Legendary En...

Deal teams from Cooley LLP and Latham & Watkins LLP announced Thursday that the San Diego Union-Tribune, the city's leadin...

Spilllane Weingarten LLP will divide as one partner forms solo practice. ...

A federal judge said he is inclined to certify a putative class action of immigrant detainees who sued the federal government ...

One lawyer makes it his mission to provide legal services to those on the margins of society. By Alfredo Mirandé ...

Plaintiffs who brought a car rollover lawsuit against Ford Motor Co. saw their high-stakes gamble pay off to the tune of $73 m...

Congress is on the verge of slashing spending on legal services for the poor even as it devotes a swell of new federal dollars...

The Value Index, a controversial Yelp-like review service for attorneys which the Association of Corporate Counsel debuted in ...

San Francisco-based Yelp Inc. filed for a highly-anticipated $100 million IPO on Thursday, advised by a team of San Francisco-...

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District announced Thursday it has selected a new magistrate judge. ...

Litigation boutique Browne George Ross LLP scored a win in what may be the first website trade dress infringement case ever to...

A jury awarded $67.5 million in damages Thursday to a woman who alleged that a male nursing assistant at a San Fernando Valley...